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FY 2005 Grant Awards: State Listings

Access to Artistic Excellence/Literature Fellowships

Some details of the projects listed below are subject to change, contingent upon prior Endowment approval.

DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA

Americans for the Arts, Inc.
Washington, DC
$40,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence  FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Local Arts Agencies 
To support the Strategic Alliances and Partnerships Initiative. Developed in response to a 2003 Americans for the Arts (AFTA) strategic planning process, this initiative will better focus the organization's longstanding efforts to strengthen the work of its core constituency -- nearly 4,000 local arts agencies located throughout the country.

Chorus America
Washington, DC
$60,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence  FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Music 
To support services and technical assistance to the choral field. Activities will include an annual conference; publications; conductor survey; and leadership development forums for conductors, board members, and managers for 1,400 chorus members.

Dance Place (D.C. Wheel Productions, Inc.)
Washington, DC
$25,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence  FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Dance 
To support performances and residencies by dancers. Artists will represent a wide spectrum of traditions of styles including African, modern, hip hop, tap, and dance with spoken word.

Dance/USA
Washington, DC
$100,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence  FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Dance 
To support professional development services. The project will include the 2005 Winter and Spring Council meetings, Dance/USA on Tour, Dance/ADVANCE, and Dance/NYC professional development series.

John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts
Washington, DC
$30,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence  FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Dance 
To support the Masterpieces of African American Choreography. The retrospective will feature the contributions of African Americans in the field of modern dance over the last 75 years.

Master Chorale of Washington Inc.
Washington, DC
$15,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence  FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Music 
To support the commission and premiere of a new work by composer Adolphus Hailstork. The Master Chorale of Washington will perform the new work at the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts in Washington, DC.

Museum Trustee Association
Washington, DC
$25,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence  FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Museum 
To support MTA's national conference Assembly 2005. To be held in Philadelphia, the conference will enable participants to continue their ongoing work in furthering best practices in American and international museum governance.

National Symphony Orchestra Association
Washington, DC
$40,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence  FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Music 
To support Composer Portrait: Brahms, an exploration of orchestral works by Johannes Brahms. Concerts will take place at the Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts in Washington, DC.

National Trust for Historic Preservation in the United States
Washington, DC
$16,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence  FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Design 
To support a preservation self-assessment tool for historic main streets. A workbook and training program will be developed to assist communities in making informed decisions about retail development, building design, and corporate identity systems on historic streetscapes.

Opera America, Inc.
Washington, DC
$20,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence  FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Opera 
To support a consortium project for the development of Web-based educational material related to Giuseppe Verdi's operas. In partnership with the Sarasota Opera, OPERA America will increase public access to a broad array of opera information by presenting the material on a public education web site, www.OperaWorld.com.

Opera America, Inc.
Washington, DC
$100,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence  FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Opera 
To support the continued provision of publication and online services to opera companies and artists. The national service organization for opera companies also plans to expand its membership services by introducing two new technical assistance programs.

Phillips Collection
Washington, DC
$50,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence  FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Museum 
To support the presentation of the exhibition The Société Anonyme: Modernism for America, with accompanying brochure and education programs. The exhibition, organized by the Yale University Art Gallery, will bring together exceptional works of art from the Societe Anonyme Collection at Yale and the Phillips to illustrate the emergence of modern art in America.

Post-Classical Ensemble, Inc.
Washington, DC
$10,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence  FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Music 
To support the production of DVDs of 1930s films with new performances of film scores by Virgil Thomson and Aaron Copland. The two DVDs will consist of Thomson's The Plow That Broke the Plains and The River, and Copland's The City.

Shakespeare Theatre
Washington, DC
$60,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence  FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Theater 
To support the production of Alfred de Musset's classic play Lorenzaccioa, the story of a complex and heroic charater's struggle with absolute power and the question of producing change by a radical act. The production will be accompanied by post-show discussions, seminars with senior and community centers, and other educational outreach activities.

Studio Theatre, Inc.
Washington, DC
$30,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence  FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Theater 
To support the production of plays during the Russian Winter Project, which introduces audiences to Russian writers who have emerged since the fall of the USSR. Black Milk by Vassily Sigarev, Afterplay by Brian Friel, and The Death of Meyerhold by Mark Jackson will be accompanied by educational programs with American and Russian scholars,

Teatro de la Luna
Washington, DC
$10,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence  FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Theater 
To support production of Continent Virile by Alejandro Acobino. Directed by Artistic Director Mario Marcel, this stylized comedy follows a scientist as he investigates the suicide of several colonies of penguins in the Antarctic.

Trustees of the Corcoran Gallery of Art
Washington, DC
$50,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence  FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Museum 
To support a touring retrospective exhibition of the work of contemporary African American artist Sam Gilliam, with accompanying catalogue and education programs. Gilliam's draped canvases and sculptures invoke a dialogue between the predominace of 1960s Abstract Expressionist artists and what was meant, at the time, by painting.

Vocal Arts Society
Washington, DC
$22,500
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence  FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Music 
To support the presentation of solo vocal recitals. Performances will be held in the Terrace Theater at the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts and other venues in Washington, DC.

Washington Chorus, Inc.
Washington, DC
$18,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence  FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Music 
To support the performance of Sir Michael Tippett's oratorio A Child of Our Time at the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts. Artistic Director Robert Shafer will conduct the Washington Chorus, and the project also will include educational and outreach activities in the Washington metropolitan area.

Washington, DC International Film Festival
Washington, DC
$20,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence  FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Media Arts 
To support Filmfest DC. The event includes free films for children, senior citizens, and underserved communities.

Washington Drama Society, Inc.
Washington, DC
$45,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence  FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Theater 
To support a production of Intimations for Saxophone, a lost play by American Expressionist playwright Sophie Treadwell. Discovered and adapted by dramaturg Michael Kinghorn, the play will be directed by Anne Bogart and the ensemble will include members of the SITI Company.

Washington National Opera
Washington, DC
$25,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence  FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Opera 
To support the world premiere of Democracy by composer Scott Wheeler and librettist Romulus Linney, to be presented at Lisner Auditorium in Washington, DC. The two-act opera will feature artists from the Domingo-Cafritz Young Artist Program, George Washington University Singers, and the Youth Orchestra of the Americas, and production staff from the Apprentice and Intern Program.

WPAS (Washington Performing Arts Society) (consortium)
Washington, DC
$30,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence  FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Presenting 
To support a consortium project titled the ArteAmericA series. In partnership with GALA Hispanic Theatre, the project will include performances and residencies celebrating Latino cultures throughout the Americas.

WPAS (Washington Performing Arts Society)
Washington, DC
$20,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence  FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Dance 
To support dance presentations and residency activities during Washington Performance Arts Society's 40th anniversary. Performances will take place at the Kennedy Center, the Clarice Smith Performing Arts Center, George Mason University, George Washington University, the Tivoli Theatre, and Dance Place.

Woolly Mammoth Theatre Company
Washington, DC
$30,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence  FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Theater 
To support the world premiere production of Big Death & Little Death, an apocalyptic comedy set in the aftermath of the Persian Gulf war, by Mickey Birnbaum. Directed by Artistic Director Howard Shalwitz, the production will inaugurate the theater's new performance space in downtown Washington, DC.

DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA total grants: 25
DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA total dollars: $891,500


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